The Grand-Poste de Liège (formerly Hôtel des Postes) is a Belgian public building built between 1896 and 1901, rue de la Régence, in downtown Liège, according to plans by the architect Edmond Jamar to house the postal services of the city. Disused and classified since 2002, the building was then the subject of various reconversion projects before being taken over at the end of 2016 by the NOSHAQ investment fund and the real estate developer BPI. Renovated then inaugurated in September 2021, La Grand-Poste is a third place bringing together a hospitality establishment, the premises and studios of the Media, Culture, Communication Department of the University of Liège as well as a community of companies working in the field digital, media and entertainment industry. In the 1890s, the buildings located at the corner of rue de la Régence and quai Sur-Meuse, mainly cafés and hotels, were razed to make way for a vast Hôtel des Postes. This scale is justified by the growth of postal services at the time. The postal services left the banks of the Meuse in 2002. The building was then occupied by various cultural and festive organizations. Exhibitions, parties, clearance sales, etc. are organized there. Work to repurpose the Grand Poste, carried out by the architectural firm Altiplan1, began in 2017 and lasted four years. Since September 2021, the renovated building is made up of five interconnected spaces: an inspiring (co)working space with varied options; a Food Market, a bar & a Rooftop; a craft brewery; a place to host start-up support programs and, finally, the media campus of the University of Liège and its multimedia studios. Today, La Grand Poste de Liège brings together more than 400 professionals in the cultural and creative industries sector, six street food counters, a craft brewery, around ten start-up support programs and around a hundred students in journalism.
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